Facility & Equipment
With over 90 full time professionals throughout, our shop operations have crews fabricating steel on two shifts. PKM Steel offers the most comprehensive services to our customers in the industry, Preconstruction Services, Design Assist- Build Steel Detailing, Project Management, and Steel Fabrication & Processing along with high performance coatings. PKM Steel is AISC certified Building & Intermediate Bridge fabricator with Sophisticated Paint endorsements, and IAS certified for Fabricator Inspection Programs for Structural Steel. We are also CWB (Canadian Welding Bureau) Certified to 47.1.
Physical Plant Description
State of the art fabrication, blasting, painting facility. Our facility has 290,000 square feet of fabrication area under roof. PKM Steel has grown to become one of the most modern and versatile fabrication companies in the Mid-West.
Structural Steel Fabrication
Robotic high definition plasma & oxy fabrication with CNC cutting, drilling, and milling capabilities.
Coatings & Steel Preparation
Pangborn Wheelabrator will accept material 5’x 12’x 60’ long. AISC sophisticated paint endorsement SPE-P2.
Welding Capabilities
AISC certified Building & Intermediate Bridge fabricator to AWS D1.1 & 1.5 with Sophisticated Paint endorsements; IAS certified for Fabricator Inspection Programs for Structural Steel, and CWB (Canadian Welding Bureau) Certified to 47.1.
Cranes
37 overhead cranes and a lifting capacity of 80 tons at 30’ maximum height.
3D Modeling & Detailing
Structural steel detailing, and advanced connection design with 3D modeling using both SDS2 detailing and Tekla modeling software.
Fabricating Equipment
| 10’ Shear | 10’ length x 1⁄4” thickness |
| 10’ Shear | 10’ length x 3/4” thickness |
| 16’ Brake | 11’ width x 16’ length |
| Plate Duplicator | 3⁄4” thickness 3 punch |
| Behringer Miter Band Saw | 40” x 20” |
| Behringer Miter Band Saw | 27” x 16” |
| ESAB Plasma Table | 8” x 30’ 1⁄4” to 1-1⁄2” |
| Controlled Automation Anglematic | 10” x 10” x 1⁄2” 8” x 8” x 3⁄4” |
| Pipe Coper | 20’ length – 3/8” thickness up to 20” dia |
| Camber Machine | 400 ton |
| Pangborn 8 motor Wheelabrator | 5’ width x 12’ height x 60’ length |
| 1500 Peddinghaus Plate Processor | 5’ width x 20’ length x 1⁄4” to 3⁄4” thickness Plasma/Marking |
| 2500 Peddinghaus Plate Processor | 8’ width x 20’ length x 1⁄4” to 3⁄4” thickness Plasma/Oxy/Milling |
| 5600 Kinetic Plate Processor | 8’ width x 20’ length x 1⁄4” to 6” thickness Plasma/Oxy/Milling |
| 4000 Kinetic Plate Processor | 8’ width x 40’ length x 1⁄4” to 4” thickness Plasma/Oxy/Milling |
| Peddinghaus Coper | 40” width x 24” height x 60’ length x 6” thickness |
| Peddinghaus 9 Spindle Beam Drill | 40” width x 24” height x 60’ length up to 2” hole |
| Leonard 3 Plate Sub Arc Welder | 2’ wide flanges Girders 8’ deep |
| Peddinghause Peddibot 1200 | 28”w x 16-1⁄2”h x 60’l to 2” thickness to 16-1⁄2”dia 6-Axis |
Equipment Summary
| Cut | Up to 8” thickness |
| Drill | Up to 8” thickness |
| Plasma Cut | 2-1⁄2” |
| Oxy Cut | 8” |
| Mill | Unlimited 30” x 30” |
| Crane | 80 tons 30’ max height |
| Painting | NACE Level Sophisticated Paint |
| Blasting | 5’ x 12’ x 60’Sandblasting (SP 10) |